Technology previews are an opportunity for Autodesk customers to help shape the future of our technology. Based on the feedback that teams receive when they conduct a technology preview, one of three things happens:
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Graduation
A technology graduates when it is available somewhere else (e.g., App Store, feature in a new product offering, new cloud-based service).
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Retirement
A technology retires when the preview ends, and users can't get it anywhere. It may come back as another technology preview sometime later. It may show up in a future product offering. The technology is not necessarily dead, but in the meantime, customers can't get it.
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Extension
Sometimes teams decide they need more feedback, so they conduct another technology preview.
To see how technology previews have turned out in the past, check out this page:
See which technologies graduated and which retired.
Look for future technologies being previewed that we create using our Autodesk Forge platform. Forge is a:
- Collection of APIs that we use to build web services that we make available to customers and development partners.
- Community of developers who leverage those APIs.
- Fund where Autodesk makes grants to companies who are helping to build out the ecosystem around the Forge web services.
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